Build and Deploy Gatsby with GitHub Actions
You can pretty easily host a small site for free with a service like Netlify, but if you already have your own server set up somewhere and are jealous of those push-to-deploy features, you can roll your own with GitHub Actions.
This is the very simple workflow that I set up to deploy this blog.
name: Build Gatsby Site
on: push
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@master
- name: Build Gatsby Site
uses: jzweifel/gatsby-cli-github-action@master
with:
gatsby-arg: build
- name: FTP-Deploy-Action
uses: SamKirkland/[email protected]
env:
FTP_SERVER: yourftpdomain.com
FTP_USERNAME: ftp_username
# set secrets under settings > secrets
# in your repository
FTP_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.FTP_PASSWORD }}
# just upload the build folder
LOCAL_DIR: public
# delete orphaned files
ARGS: --delete